THE BROCHER - HASTINGS CENTER SUMMER ACADEMY

 

The main aim of the Brocher - Hastings Center Summer Academy is to bring together distinguished professors from different disciplines and countries and highly promising researchers willing to acquire a strong background on the Medical, Ethical and Legal Implications of Human enhancement ». The high level of teaching and the limited number of participants gives the students a rare opportunity to meet personally many established international professors.

Lectures, daily working groups and a round table are essential components of this event.

 

DOCUMENTS FOR PARTICPANTS (password protected)

 

 

Powerpoints by speakers: John Hoberman  ¦ Patrick Lin  ¦ Tom Murray  ¦ Erik Parens  ¦ Rob Sparrow  ¦ David Wasserman

 

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Abstracts, Biographies and bibliographies  ¦ List of participants

 

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Suggested readings by speaker:

All in one (400 pages; printing in 2 pages per sheet recommended)

Davis  ¦ Hoberman  ¦ Juengst  ¦ Lin  ¦ McNamee  ¦ Mehlman  ¦ Murray  ¦ Shakespeare  ¦ Singh  ¦ Sparrow  ¦ Vincent  ¦ Wasserman  ¦ Round table survey (1/2)  ¦ Round table survey (2/2)

 

 

PROGRAMME

 

MONDAY, 4 JULY

 

 

History and Concept

 

10 - 10.45 am                       Toward a more productive conversation about technologically enhancing humans

Erik Parens (The Hastings Center)

 

11 - 11.45 am                       History of enhancement debate

John Hoberman (University of Texas)

 

12.15 am - 1.00 pm            Discussion

 

1.00 - 2.30 pm                      Lunch

 

 

Innovation towards regulation

 

2.30 - 3.15 pm                      Regulatory framework

Philippe Ducor (University of Geneva)

 

3.30 - 4.15 pm                      The politics of human (genetic) enhancement

Rob Sparrow (Monash University)

 

4.30 - 5.15 pm                      Discussion

 

5.30 - 6.15 pm                      Working groups

 

7.00 - 8.30 pm                      Dinner

 

 

TUESDAY, 5 JULY

 

 

Disability, and the Treatment/Enhancement Distinction

 

10 - 10.45 am                       Disabilities rights perspectives on the “enhancement” debate

Tom Shakespeare (World Health Organization)

 

11 - 11.45 am                       Is the treatment/ enhancement distinction useful?

Eric Juengst (University of North Carolina)

 

12.15 am - 1.00 pm            Discussion

 

1.00 - 2.30 pm                      Lunch

 

 

Enhancing Bodies

 

2.30 - 3.15 pm                      The business of manipulating height

Christine Cosgrove (University of California)

 

3.30 - 4.15 pm                      Parental Investment

Dena S. Davis (Brocher visiting researcher, Lehigh University)

 

4.30 - 5.15 pm                      Discussion

 

5.30 - 6.15 pm                      Working groups

 

7.00 - 8.30 pm                      Dinner

 

 

WEDNESDAY, 6 JULY

 

 

Cognitive enhancement

                                                                                                                                                                                                   

10 - 10.45 am                       Human enhancement within the medical profession

Colin Sugden (Imperial College)

 

11 - 11.45 am                       Should Peter get a new brain? Neurotechnology and self-transformation in the Rx generation

Ilina Singh (London School of Economics & Political Science)

 

12.15 am - 1.00 pm            Discussion

 

1.00 - 2.30 pm                      Lunch

 

 

The Interface Between Cognitive and Moral Enhancement

 

2.30 - 3.15 pm                      Neurobiology and the possibility of moral enhancement

David Wasserman (Yeshiva University)

 

3.30 - 4.15 pm                      What cognitive enhancement means for legal and moral responsibility

Nicole Vincent (Macquarie University)

 

4.30 - 5.15 pm                      Discussion

 

5.30 - 6.15 pm                      Working groups

 

7.00 - 8.30 pm                      Dinner (not organized by the Brocher Foundation)

 

 

THURSDAY, 7 JULY

 

 

Enhancement in the Military

 

10 - 10.45 am                       Military Human Enhancements:  On the Frontlines of Science and Society

Patrick Lin (California Polytechnic State University)

 

11 - 11.45 am                       Enhancement in the Military

Maxwell J. Mehlman (Case Western University Reserve)

 

12.15 am - 1.00 pm            Discussion

 

 

1.00 - 2.30 pm                      Lunch

 

Enhancement in sport

 

2.30 - 3.15 pm                      Enhancement, sport and meaning

Tom Murray (The Hastings Center)

 

3.30 - 4.15 pm                      Pathological perfectionism: recognising limits in sports and human nature

Michael McNamee (Swansea University)

 

4.30 - 5.15 pm                      Discussion

 

5.30 - 6.15 pm                      Working groups

 

7.00 - 8.30 pm                      Dinner

 

 

 

FRIDAY, 8 JULY

 

 

10 am - 1 pm                        Round table

Chaired by Steve Hall (Columbia University)

 

1.00 - 2.30 pm                      Lunch

 

 

 

The Hastings Center is an independent, nonpartisan, and nonprofit bioethics research institute founded in 1969. The Center's mission is to address fundamental ethical issues in the areas of health, medicine, and the environment as they affect individuals, communities, and societies.

To achieve this mission, the Center has established four goals:

 

To pursue interdisciplinary research and education that includes both theory and practice.

To engage a broad audience of thoughtful people in the work of the Center.

To collaborate with policy makers, in the private as well as the public sphere, to identify and analyze the ethical dimensions of their work.

To strengthen the international dimensions of the Center's work.

 

Much of the Center’s research addresses bioethics issues in three broad areas: care and decision making at the end of life, public health priorities, and new and emerging technologies. The Center draws on a world-wide network of experts, including an elected association of leading researchers influential in bioethics called Hastings Center Fellows. Research is carried out by interdisciplinary teams that convene to frame and examine issues that inform professional practice, public conversation, and social policy.

 

The Hastings Center Report and IRB: Ethics & Human Research bring the best scholarship and commentary in bioethics to members and other readers worldwide. Center Research Scholars direct research projects, write and speak on a variety of topics, serve as consultants, and assist members of the press.

Intellectual life at the Center is enhanced by a visiting scholars program. Staff and visitors are served by The Morison Library.

Research grants, charitable contributions, and income from a modest reserve fund support the Center's work.

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DOWNLOADS (for participants only, password required)

 POWERPOINT PRESENTATIONS

 

ABSTRACTS & BIO  ¦ WORKING GROUP SESSIONS INFORMATION

ARTICLES FOR WGS-1  ¦ ARTICLES FOR WGS-2  ¦ ARTICLES FOR WGS-3  ¦ ARTICLES FOR WGS-4

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THE HUMAN BODY AS A SOURCE FOR THERAPEUTICS :

Ethical , Medical and Legal implications

 

REGISTRATION ONLY OPEN FOR THE SYMPOSIUM

 

FULL SCHEDULE 

 

The 2009 Brocher Summer School will focus on the “Human Body as a Source for Therapeutics”. It will explore key issues in development of new therapeutics and related implications for the Human being and its body. A  substantive focus will be given on the following topics :

 

·          The use of parts of the Human body in medicine

·          The history of the first transplants

·          Legal principles and ethical issues related to the medical use of parts of the human body

·          Infertility and Assisted Reproduction, Status of the embryo, Comparative analysis of public policy, controversies

·          The Eurotransplant program, Living donors issues

·          Predictive medicine, medical aspects, Insurance & Predictive medicine : the Ethical and Economical aspects

·          Biobanks, medical & ethical issues, legal principles

·          Symposium on stem cells research

 

Morning and Afternoon lectures

 

Ø       Interdisciplinary approach

Ø       Internationally-renowned professors

Ø       Participation of high-level experts from the WHO

Ø       Daily class discussions

 

Afternoon workshops

 

Ø       In-depth and small-group study of selected issues addressed in morning and afternoon lectures

 

Symposium “From Promise to Practice: A new epoch for Stem Cell Research “

 

Ø       Open to an international attendance.

 

Closing Roundtable on the Human Body as a source for therapeutics

 

 

MONDAY 31^st AUGUST

 

MORNING

Chair : Vincent Barras

Professor at the Faculty of Biology and Medicine, University Institute of the History of Medicine and Public Health, Lausanne (Switzerland)

 

The use of Human Body in medicines

Christian Bonah

Historian and Doctor – Louis Pasteur University, Strasbourg (France)

 

The history of the first Transplants

Susan E. Lederer

Chair of the Dpt of Medical History and Bioethics, School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Wisconsin (USA)

 

Followed by a discussion

 

AFTERNOON

Chair : Philippe Ducor

Director of the Interdisciplinary Master in Life Sciences and Law, University of Geneva (Switzerland)

 

Legal principles and their categorization

Olivier Guillod

Director of the Institute for Medical Law, University of Neuchâtel (Switzerland)

 

Legal and Ethical issues

Trudo Lemmens

Professor, Faculty of Law and Medicine, University of Toronto (Canada)

 

Working group sessions

 

TUESDAY 1^st SEPTEMBER

 

MORNING

Chair : Dr Sheryl Vanderpoels

WHO, Medical Officer, Geneva (Switzerland)

 

Infertility and Assisted Reproduction : medical introduction

Yvon Englert

Head of dept of Gynaecology and Obstetrics, Erasmus Hospital, Brussels (Belgium)

 

Status of the Embryo

Alex Mauron

Professor of Bioethics, Medical Faculty, Geneva (Switzerland)

 

Followed by a discussion

 

AFTERNOON

Chair : Yvon Englert

Professor and Chief of Gynaecology and Obstetrics, Erasmus Hospital, Brussels (Belgium)

 

Assisted Reproduction : Comparative analysis of public policy

Frédéric Varone

Professor at the Economic and Social Sciences, University of Geneva (Switzerland)

 

Controversy on : “Should multiple deliveries be considered as success?”

Allan Templeton

Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Aberdeen (UK)

 

René Frydman

Professor, Faculty of Medicine, University Paris XI and Head of the Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics of Antoine Beclere Hospital, Director of Research Unit on Reproductive medecine

 

 

Working group sessions

WEDNESDAY 2^nd SEPTEMBER

 

MORNING

Chair : Philippe Ducor,

Director of the Interdisciplinary Master in Life Sciences and Law, University of Geneva (Switzerland)

 

The Eurotransplant program

Frans Claas

Member of the Eurotransplant, Erasmus Hospital, Geneva (Switzerland)

 

Living donor issues

Pierre-Yves Martin

Professor and Chairman, Dpt of Nephrology, University of Geneva (Switzerland)

 

Followed by a discussion

 

WHO – Brief introduction to the objectives of the Ethics and Health Unit

Dr Marie Charlotte Bouësseau

Ethics and Health Unit, WHO, Geneva (Switzerland)

 

THURSDAY 3^rd SEPTEMBER

 

MORNING

Chair : Anne Cambon-Thomsen

Chair of the INSERM Unity 558, Geneticist, Toulouse (France)

 

Predictive medicine: Medical introduction

Stylianos Antonarakis

Professor and Chairman, Dpt of Genetic Medicine and Development, University of Geneva (Switzerland)

 

Insurance & predictive medicine: the Ethical and economical aspects

Michael Hoy

Professor of Economics, University of Guelph (Canada)

Followed by a discussion

 

THURSDAY 3^rd SEPTEMBER

 

AFTERNOON

Chair : Jan-Helge Solbakk

Professor, Section for Medical Ethics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo (Norway)

 

Biobanks - Medical and Legal Issues

Anne Cambon-Thomsen

Chair of the INSERM Unity 558, Geneticist, Toulouse (France)

 

Biobanks - Legal Principles

Dr Jane Kaye

The Ethox Center, University of Oxford (UK)

 

Followed by a discussion

Working group sessions

 

FRIDAY 4^th SEPTEMBER

 

SYMPOSIUM “From Promise to Practice: A new Epoch for Stem Cell Research”

 

MORNING SESSION : Medical and Ethical Implications

 

Stem Cells in the Clinic

Christopher Thomas Scott

Director, Stanford University Program on Stem Cells in Society

 

The Rise of Stem Cell Tourism

Timothy Caulfield

Director of Health Law, University of Alberta

 

The Embryonic Dilemma : Which disease, how safe?

Outi Hovatta

Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Department of Clinical Science, Intervention and Technology, Karolinska Institute

 

Roundtable Discussion

 

AFTERNOON SESSION : Political and Legal Perspectives

 

A Parliamentarian’s Perspective : Lawmaking in biology’s newest frontier

Senator Kay Patterson

Former Federal Australian Health Minister, Vice Chancellor’s Professional Fellow, University of Monash

 

A Fractured Landscape of Stem Cell Patents : Who owns what?

Aurora Plomer

Chair in Law and Bioethics, Director of SIBLE, School of Law, University of Sheffield

 

The State of the Stem Cell Industry

Paul Martin

Reader in Science and Technology Studies, Deputy Director, University of Nottingham

 

Roundtable Discussion

 

Concluding remarks

 

 

SATURDAY 5^th SEPTEMBER

 

ROUNDTABLE

 

BSS Participants &

P. Ducor, Y. Englert, R. Gurny, A. Mauron, L. Scapozza.

2008 PROGRAMME ON RESEARCH WITH HUMAN SUBJECTS

 

The Brocher Foundation scientific programme focuses on the Ethical, Legal and Social Implications (ELSI) of the development of medical technologies. The Brocher Foundation main aims are to welcome scientists for stays from one to six months and to organise symposia.

 

In 2008, for its first edition, the Brocher Summer School will focus on the “Research with Human subjects”. It will explore key issues in development of new medicines and related implications for the Human Subject, with a substantive focus on the following topics:

·          History of research with human subjects and Biomedical ethics

·          History of drug development, Preclinical development of drugs and Clinical development of drugs

·          Research with Human Subjects for non-medicinal purposes

·          Regulation of Research with Human Subjects

·          Socio-economic aspects of drug development

·          Bioart and human subjects

 

The programme includes:

 

Morning and Afternoon lectures

Ø       Interdisciplinary approach Internationally-renowned professors

Ø       Daily class discussions

 

Afternoon workshops

Ø       In depth and small-group study of issues addressed in morning and afternoon lectures

 

Symposium on Access to medicines

Ø       Open to public attendance.

 

Closing Round table on the outcomes of “Research with Human subjects”